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Is Microsoft dropping support for 32bit binaries in 2025? I think it's just dropping hardware support.
by Wowfunhappy 3y ago
Is Microsoft dropping support for 32bit binaries in 2025? I think it's just dropping hardware support.
- capitainenemo 3y agoAh yeah, you're right. WOW64 appears to not be going anywhere anytime soon. Although. I gotta say, I don't use windows much, but some folks I kind of helped out on the side were upgrading to Windows 8 and were completely unable to launch their 32 bit XP accounting software binary with every emulation flag I tried. (could just have been my inexperience on this, but wasn't finding anything in the support guides). Oddly enough, it ran fine in Wine in virtualbox in a small ubuntu instance, so they ended up just using that in seamless mode. So, at least from past experience that legacy compat is not 100% and I'm guessing games might be even more finicky than accounting software.
- leeter 3y agoThey are however (by dropping the 32bit versions of Windows) dropping 16bit support. Which still exists in 32bit Windows 10 along with NTVDM (AKA DOS emulation). So I guess it's the end of the line for MSDOS?